Hollow body size guide

Several years ago I was searching for similar and, IIRC, the ones you mention are about 16" wide and 2" deep at the rims and fatter in the middle of the body due to the arching. The Verythin is about 1.25" deep.

I went with the Hofner Ignition Club bass which is about 12.5" wide and 2" deep at the rim.

 

Hollow body Gretsch basses are, for the most part, adaptations of their hollow body guitars. My '94 Broadkaster, for example, is a G6119BO-LH (B for bass; O for Orange; LH for left hand. Yes, it's an actual factory lefty). If it was just a G6119-O, it would be an orange Tenneseean guitar. Which is one of their larger, deeper bodied guitars. Gretsch does publish their instrument's dimensions on their website - or used to...

 

Welcome.

I had a Gretsch G5442BDC for about a year and I remember it being similar in size to the others you mentioned, maybe a bit thinner but not like the Verythin.

 

The Guild Starfire bass body is almost the same size as a Gibson ES-335 guitar, and like the 335, it is semi-hollow (with a solid block running down the middle) not completely hollow. Body is about 18-1/2" long and the lower bout about 16-1/4" wide. I imagine it's the same body used for the double-cutaway Starfire guitars.

The body thickness has varied a little over the years:
•Current production and (I believe, but don't have one to check) the 1960s/70s production, usually loaded with Bi-Sonics, are 1-5/8" thick
•MIA, bass Guildbucker-loaded re-issues from the 1990s are a hair thinner at about 1-9/16". The cases for these thinner ones are also not as deep as the ones for the others and generally have 7 latches instead of 5.

 

1990s SF-II re-issue (MIA) on left...2015 SF-I (MIK) on right

 

I wish there were more hollow bodies on the market - especially closer to the lower end where I dwell.

 

Here is a demo of an (MIK) Guild SF-I:



A 1990s (MIA) SF-II is featured in this clip:

 

I was just looking for a broken hollow body to make an arcade stick for fighting video games. Quarantine is giving me weird ideas for unproductive projects.